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[IncognitoHFX]

[Don Gately]

[Mosley]

OK, Incognito says he was in the CF Air Farce Reserves. Hell, it's almost like he was in the military!

Fine. You wanna call me a dipshyte(very intellectual compared to the terms I applied to you), laddybuck? Fine. I have no great military credentials to compare. Eight years, mostly PPCLI, in the ranks. Peacetime? Yep, but I had no choice in that. Peacekeeping tours? Yep, and you know "peacekeeping" is the fantasy notion that the NDPers still cling to even in the 9/11 world.

So, in your unidentified documentary, your Noam Chomsky fantasies come alive with rednecks(curious, given that leftists are always claiming that US blacks do the bulk of combat duty for the US military) screaming out obscenities against Muslims. Not like the CF under Liberal governments, where "human rights, womens' rights" yada, yada, were the order of the day. Warms the coc kles of me heart, it do. I'm bleeding purple panther piss as I type this.

Peppermint, as I recall, spent a fair no. of yrs. in Seoul. I don't always agree w/her posts but I reckon she met a fair no. of GIs(inevitable if you live in Seoul long enough) . I daresay she met GIs who were great guys and those who were jerks. C'est la vie. But you want to label them all assholes? As you said, a "well-thought opinion".

You're coming across as a caricature of the "young, enlightened, 'cool', 'progressive' newbie" you're seeking to promote. In any event, tolerance and an open mind(ouch! that smarts!) are not emanating from your posts.

[jaderedux2]

As someone who knows Miss Peppermint she was an active member in the expat community. She knew all kinds of people and I have had several long conversations with her. She was interesting, level headed and took the time to know the culture here.

She would never tolerate crap from anyone and she if she sees or hears it she is not afraid to call you on it. I know she had/has some friends connected with or in the military so she can speak from experience.

What I hate from a number of "newbies" (not fond of that term either) is the lazy intellectualism that comes with anti-military, anti-Americanism. Too easy. Its like saying "I am against having a sharp stick poked in my eye." Duh! America/Americans are as diverse as any population. We are a complex society that is struggling like most developed nations have as our role changes in the world. England struggled with the same things so did France and Spain. Hopefully after shrub is gone in forgotten, our government can find a way to repair the horrific damage and become better global citizens.

Sadly we are a bit paranoid right now and I guess rightly so sometimes but we still are the first country people look too when a disaster happens And foolishly or not we show up with help and normally show up fast.

And as a p.s. a good number of the men in my family served in the Armed Forces. None of them were red-necks, stupid or anything but honorable during a time when their country called. They were all volunteers.

Jade

[Neil]

I drove past a protest outside the Yongsan base yesterday. About 70 odd Koreans there.

I thought it was interesting to note that 90% of the protesters were college aged (a few looked like high school kids) and the crowd was pretty much all male.

Make of that what you will.